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MCP Tools, Resources, and Prompts
Expose one documentation service as a resource, search tool and reusable prompt. Run discovery and use locally, then check host support and access boundaries.
API vs MCP: What's the Difference?
Compare a direct HTTP API with an MCP adapter through the same local weather lookup, including discovery, schemas, access boundaries and maintenance costs.
Agent Skills vs MCP vs Tools
Follow a documentation review to separate reusable instructions, MCP connectivity and executable tools, with examples that do not need all three.
What Are Agent Skills?
Understand SKILL.md packages, staged loading, prompts, tools, and permission boundaries through a small review skill and runnable Python helper.
How to Write an Agent Skill
Build a focused setup-guide review skill, validate its files, and design positive, negative, and failure-feedback tests without granting extra permissions.
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Follow an algorithm step by step. Change an input. Watch a system respond. Build an intuition for what the code is doing.
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Looking for 23: 12 is too small. Keep the right half.
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